Rubber Band Bump Firing

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pretty sure the atf doesnt regulate rubber bands. not yet anyway...:rolleyes: ive never tried it myself but it looks like fun!
 
Agreed. You don't want the Brady Bunch getting ahold of this. Carolyn "Barrel Shroud" McCarthy is liable to include rubber bands in her list of things she wants to throw people in jail for.
 
http://www.poormansmachinegun.com/

not too good for your trigger group, but can be fun.

Antis don't even need to see this, they think all semi autos can be sprayed from the hip anyway, so it doesn't really do much to change that, but me personally?, I hope criminals would try this technique, you would see a bad guy with a puzzled look in the middle of a bank with a ceiling full of holes and a weapon safely unloaded as the police throw him to the floor with 0 casualties (well maybe 1)
 
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They do regulate shoelaces, though.
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The is a big difference between the rubber band method and the sting-on-washer method. The reason the ATF considers that string-on-washer method illegal is that you yourself aren't engaging the firearms trigger for each shot of the weapon. Instead, you are pulling the washer. And, since pull of the washer makes the rifle continue to cycle, they consider this a mod that makes the rifle fire full-auto.

As for the rubber band, you ARE engaging the trigger for each shot the weapon fires. It is one trigger pull per shot, just like in bump firing from the hip. What the rubber band does is created dual tension, toward and away from the trigger, that shortens its reset. If you pull trigger all the way back you will only get one shot. It has to be reset and reengaged for EACH and every shot. So, what the rubber band does is facilitate bumpfiring NOT full-auto fire.

For the ATF to "legally" regulate the rubber band method, they would have to enact a new law making illegal for a non-permanent modification to a weapon that facilitates bumpfiring, which right now is not illegal.

*Disclaimer: Don't take any of this as gospel, this just my understanding.
 
Therefore de-regulating machine guns won't affect crime.
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is there even a possibility that this would ever happen and we could own machine guns as easily as any other firearm and not have to have an extra $15k laying around do do it? as much as i would love to see that happen, it seems more likely to me that the antis would try to do away with all semi auto firearms.
 
Agreed. You don't want the Brady Bunch getting ahold of this. Carolyn "Barrel Shroud" McCarthy is liable to include rubber bands in her list of things she wants to throw people in jail for.
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I've given up caring what these fools think. Why should we all be afraid of them? I'm not going to worry that if I so much as sneeze with a semi-auto in my hand that it makes it a deadlier assault rifle. To hell with them and the horse they rode in on. We're more than prepared for any media blitz they put together. I say, "bring it on". Anything they put out is just one more opportunity for us to educate the public at large.
 
That was an awesome video. Thanks for posting it. I've only seen bump firing from the hip before, which never seemed very practical to me. But this method allows you to get a sight picture and lean into the recoil, keeping the shots on target. And from what I understand it is pretty much select fire as you can fire single shots by tightening your grip and pulling the trigger all the way back. I've never tried it, but man I am sold. Anybody want to sell me a rubberband for 10K?
 
Most everything I've read about bump-firing has indicated it is highly inaccurate even at 25 yards. I don't think the feds have anything to worry about.
 
Most everything I've read about bump-firing has indicated it is highly inaccurate even at 25 yards. I don't think the feds have anything to worry about.
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Did you see the target he was shooting at when he brought it in at the end of the video? Assuming it wasn't already full of holes before he shot, I think he managed pretty well with the bump fire. I would even go so far as to say that it was better than most people (untrained in full auto) could do with a real select fire M-16. Beyond 25 meters, I'd probably prefer switching to semi-auto either way.
 
I'll be the first to admit my first time behind a full auto I was much less accurate than the person in the bump fire video. Time to start shopping for a new pistol caliber carbine :)
 
In some of his other videos, it looked like he was getting a lot of jams (I don't know much about bump firing so I don't know if that is normal or not). I do not know that it would be practical for anything but fun at the range (never know though, I guess it could just be bad ammo or a dirty weapon).
 
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